Bowl

Museum number:
9-12732
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3248 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
Description:
China attributed. Bowl, porcelain with enamel decoration. Medium large hemisphere shape with scalloped edge. Thick, opaque overglaze enamel decoration covering all of exterior side: Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Stems form band of thick white near foot, with incised detail, and leaves, near rim in light and dark green with black detail, and spots of red and yellow color (butterflies?). Brown on rim. Interior has small center medallion of double peach and bat design; rest plain with grey-green tinted white surface. Iron-red 'endless-knot' potter's mark on base. Height 6.6 centimeters, diameter 17 centimeters.
Donor:
Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China attr.
Collector:
Anson Stiles Blake
Collection date:
pre-1962
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12732, described as China attributed. Bowl, porcelain with enamel decoration. Medium large hemisphere shape with scalloped edge. Thick, opaque overglaze enamel decoration covering all of exterior side: Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Stems form band of thick white near foot, with incised detail, and leaves, near rim in light and dark green with black detail, and spots of red and yellow color (butterflies?). Brown on rim. Interior has small center medallion of double peach and bat design; rest plain with grey-green tinted white surface. Iron-red 'endless-knot' potter's mark on base. Height 6.6 centimeters, diameter 17 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12732, described as China attributed. Bowl, porcelain with enamel decoration. Medium large hemisphere shape with scalloped edge. Thick, opaque overglaze enamel decoration covering all of exterior side: Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Stems form band of thick white near foot, with incised detail, and leaves, near rim in light and dark green with black detail, and spots of red and yellow color (butterflies?). Brown on rim. Interior has small center medallion of double peach and bat design; rest plain with grey-green tinted white surface. Iron-red 'endless-knot' potter's mark on base. Height 6.6 centimeters, diameter 17 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12732, described as China attributed. Bowl, porcelain with enamel decoration. Medium large hemisphere shape with scalloped edge. Thick, opaque overglaze enamel decoration covering all of exterior side: Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Stems form band of thick white near foot, with incised detail, and leaves, near rim in light and dark green with black detail, and spots of red and yellow color (butterflies?). Brown on rim. Interior has small center medallion of double peach and bat design; rest plain with grey-green tinted white surface. Iron-red 'endless-knot' potter's mark on base. Height 6.6 centimeters, diameter 17 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12732, described as China attributed. Bowl, porcelain with enamel decoration. Medium large hemisphere shape with scalloped edge. Thick, opaque overglaze enamel decoration covering all of exterior side: Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Stems form band of thick white near foot, with incised detail, and leaves, near rim in light and dark green with black detail, and spots of red and yellow color (butterflies?). Brown on rim. Interior has small center medallion of double peach and bat design; rest plain with grey-green tinted white surface. Iron-red 'endless-knot' potter's mark on base. Height 6.6 centimeters, diameter 17 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12732, described as China attributed. Bowl, porcelain with enamel decoration. Medium large hemisphere shape with scalloped edge. Thick, opaque overglaze enamel decoration covering all of exterior side: Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Stems form band of thick white near foot, with incised detail, and leaves, near rim in light and dark green with black detail, and spots of red and yellow color (butterflies?). Brown on rim. Interior has small center medallion of double peach and bat design; rest plain with grey-green tinted white surface. Iron-red 'endless-knot' potter's mark on base. Height 6.6 centimeters, diameter 17 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12732, described as China attributed. Bowl, porcelain with enamel decoration. Medium large hemisphere shape with scalloped edge. Thick, opaque overglaze enamel decoration covering all of exterior side: Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Stems form band of thick white near foot, with incised detail, and leaves, near rim in light and dark green with black detail, and spots of red and yellow color (butterflies?). Brown on rim. Interior has small center medallion of double peach and bat design; rest plain with grey-green tinted white surface. Iron-red 'endless-knot' potter's mark on base. Height 6.6 centimeters, diameter 17 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12732, described as China attributed. Bowl, porcelain with enamel decoration. Medium large hemisphere shape with scalloped edge. Thick, opaque overglaze enamel decoration covering all of exterior side: Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Stems form band of thick white near foot, with incised detail, and leaves, near rim in light and dark green with black detail, and spots of red and yellow color (butterflies?). Brown on rim. Interior has small center medallion of double peach and bat design; rest plain with grey-green tinted white surface. Iron-red 'endless-knot' potter's mark on base. Height 6.6 centimeters, diameter 17 centimeters.

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